The Daily Meme #220!
Just another boring day in paradise.
Pulled some weeds, smoked some, too.
I don't know if I can take all that escaping crapitalism has given me.
Plenty of time I get to spend under some nifty bridges.
I get to see the fire ants, and share some lunch with them, too.
I couldn't do that if I was still embracing my slavery.
It comes without any lambos, or 65 hour work weeks, either.
So, you have to balance the lack of daily consumption for the abundance of time.
Up to you.
Not everybody is ready to handle freedom.
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I hated wiggly teeth, once my sister tied one of mine up to the door handle and slammed the door, that took care of that!
Lol, I missed all those sibling interactions as an only child, but it does make me outside the norm.
I've heard horror stories from people with brothers.
Broken limbs, lost eyes, lifelong grudges, it's a wonder that humanity survives, iyam.
I think she saw the operation done on the Tom and Jerry show.
Ah, cartoons.
The bedrock of generation x's fakeducation.
Not as bad as the three stooges.
Could you imagine growing up when bonking people on the head and poking folks in the eye were cool?
If I could get rid of work and still have my life quality, I'd do it, but I rely on work to get medical stuff done, electronics, food and a good roof over my head. Dunno how I would do this without captleezm.
Yes, the system is very insidious.
Every choice they give you moves you towards the cattle cars.
Either, get in the car, or get turned out into the cold.
Very freedom. /S
The trick will be to set yourself up to survive using as little from their system as possible, or extracting as much as possible and putting it into a parallel economy not theirs.
Buy local, sell where the customers are.
This book, and this book, address the ways out, but this book does it in more worker oriented language.
Kropotkin was a russian prince that turned his back on privilege because he thought the serfs got a bum deal.
Berkman was more an average joe with a passion for freedom.
If you need things to do, in order to set up this parallel economy, this link has 1000's of pages of homemade things and some videos, too.
Ah, I love these sites! Archive.org, theanarchistlibrary, zlibrary, libgen, all lovely.
I have been recommended Kropotkin many times. I should at least read his bread book, but I'm always put off by anything communisty because I live in Venezuela and they kinda destroyed any hope I had at good living standards lol. I'll download it and put it in my library. I'm sure I'll eye it a few times at least until maybe I've read it all.
And yeap, wish there were something else, no cattle race, but I'm probably aiming toward a life of privilege but without the work it requires. Not sure how we could have today's technology, which I quite enjoy, without the whole human specialization and mass-workeroni thing.
Anprim unabomber once said "The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.", and I half agree because so much work, and I half disagree because who's gonna make my gaming laptop otherwise.
Will download kropet. I don't have that much free time to start DIYing my life tho, or the energy, to be fair, since I have a chemical imbalance that removes my ability to function normally most of the time except on a computer. I'm pretty sure it's a vicious cycle of separating myself from the outside and thus losing my ability to outside.
This book is a more polished version of this book, if you only read one, read the first.
It will give you a reference point amidst any chaos in your life.
I would recommend it first out of all the others.
Until you find peace within yourself it is hard to inspire peace in others.
As for the 'communism' you have experienced, here is a lady that would dispute that what you have suffered was even remotely communism.
Socialusts use gov't force, communists cooperate to make a mutually better world.
Here is where the banksters put marx into power by giving him the press and excluding Bakunin from recieving any mentions in the newspapers that wasn't derogatory.
Beware folks that the media supports, imo.
Oh, I'm aware of that communism terminology debate. But that's the system that exists in mainstream knowledge. Any communist or socialist party today will tend toward this more than the ideal one you mention.
The way I usually reason about it is as follows:
In terms of the political system and term promotion
Any effort to promote the term will now be contaminated by the tyrants' view of what communism entails. You will have communists supporting the Soviet Union and its gulags, Mao and his massacres, Fidel's tyranny, Chávez's destruction of the economy and Maduro's oligarchy.
The term has been coopted by these parties and groups of people, and promoting "communism" or "socialism" per se in a systematic way will always lead to empowering this collectivist ruling class, resulting in similar results.
In terms of the concept itself as a viable strategy
(sidenote: I have to confess on this part that I haven't read much about what you say, so I'll have to read up that "alternative branch" of communism. I'll have to categorize your books by author and title, because "this book" is not very descriptive lol.)
When you see 100 attempts, and all result in failure, and people keep promoting it, it kinda smells of self-destructive delusion.
I have this analogy that I always think about, which is one of a magical pill that can cure any disease, but any time someone drinks it, it kills the person, and everyone then says "it must've been the wrong formula" and keeps trying again and again, killing everyone who drinks the pill for generations, and shutting down anyone who questions the legitimacy of the recipe.
Is it failure when the crapitalusts bomb women and children into submission, or something else?
https://listverse.com/2016/06/29/10-instances-of-anarchist-societies-that-actually-worked/
The majick pill in this instance is the rejection of rule by force.
As long as these people get to use violence to control those people because reasons, we get ruled by those most willing to kill to stay in power.
They will invent the reasons as they need them.
It's still back to building from the local to the federation rather than from the top down.
Theanarchistlibrary.org has most of the works of the last century and this one.
In very many languages, too.
Yeah, I do know about those meh destructions of cool things cuz anarchy can't exist without some authoritarians trying to destroy it.
Anyway, I was talking about my bias.
When I'm tired, as I told you I tend to be, I feel that it takes too much effort to research everything, and even then we're powerless to achieve much individually.
That is why I generally prefer to put most of my effort into building my own world for myself. I think that brings more benefit for myself than trying to promote social systems and all.
Yes, when rule by force is rejected the various ism options will be academic.
It is better to just build your own thing until the neighbors start doing it, too.
You've mentioned so many books. I went and grabbed epubs for most of them. Here's a list I made with everything.
The Unique and Its Property (by Max Stirner)
The Externalisation of the Hierarchy (by Alice A. Bailey and Djwhal Khul)
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry (by Albert Pike)
The secret teachings of all ages: an encyclopedic outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic, and Rosicrucian symbolical philosophy : being an interpretation of the secret teachings concealed within the rituals, allegories, and mysteries of the ages (by Manly Palmer Hall)
Science of Survival: Prediction of Human Behavior (by L. Ron Hubbard)
The engineering of consent (by Edward Bernays)
The Conquest of Bread (Kropotkin)
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (Kropotkin)
What is Communist Anarchism? (Alexander Berkman)
That is great, perhaps folks will find that helpful when they find this post in the future.
One of the reasons why I do this is because I see links shared that link to wordpress blogs. Blogs tend to die a lot.
I have written about this before. You can check my post on archiving.
https://peakd.com/hive-148441/@cryptosharon/use-archiving-tools-to-ensure-the-durability-of-the-information-you-share
This is why if you want your links to last some time, especially to books and articles, I recommend not linking only to the direct source, but to an archived version. I recommend using platforms such as the ones I mentioned before, i.e. libgen, the anarchist library, zlibrary, archive.org and archive.today.
Around 70% of my stored bookmarks are dead. I tell you from experience that hotlinking to direct downloads on fleeting blogs will make it so you don't have access to your own information in a few years. Blogs delete posts, hosts delete blogs, registrars delete domains, etc.
Sounds like a sound policy to have.
I've only lost one link, wearenotcattle.com, it had this book, but archive.org has it now.
I was a little lost when that link went down.
The stss.nl link will come and go, too.
They are fighting the church's lawyers over copyrights.
They used to break the links after I'd share them, but it's been a year or more since the last time they weren't available.
I have so many dead links that I've even started to reupload the videos and music I watch and listen to to Telegram and other platforms to reduce my risk of losing them. Sometimes I tap one of my decade-old bookmark folders and click "open everything in new tabs" and ther eare so many 404s. I really didn't have a good archiving policy at the time, as I didn't know anything about the topic.
I prefer epubs so I grabbed a couple links from zlibrary to download. Posting for posterity.
Kropotkin: The Conquest of Bread.epub
Kropotkin: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.epub
Berkman: What Is Communist Anarchism?.epub